Food Security and Land Use: The Telecoupling Challenge

ABC Telecoupling

Call

  • Food

Project Website

Principal Investigator

Mateus Batistella, Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, United States

Partners

Luiz Martinelli, University of São Paulo, Brazil Leila Ferreira, University of Campinas, Brazil Daniel Victoria, Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, Brazil Edson Bofle, Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, Brazil Claudio Bragantini, Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, Brazil Fabiana Barbi, University of Campinas, Brazil Emilio Moran, Michigan State University, United States Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University, United States Jiaguo Qi, Michigan State University, United States Douglas Buhler, Michigan State University, United States Charles Godfray, University of Oxford, United Kingdom James Millington, King's College, London, United Kingdom Steve Yearley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Tara Garnett, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Jeremy Woods, Centre for Environmental Policy, United Kingdom Huajun Tang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China Zhiyun Ouyang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Fusuo Zhang, China Agricultural University, China Ninghui Li, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China Lubiao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China Andrew Jarvis, CIAT, Colombia Kevin Chen, IFPRIA, China An Liu, FAO China Office, China

Funders

  • FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), NSF (National Science Foundation)

Project Objective

The objective of ABC Telecoupling is to enhance the capacity to predict effects from shifts in food flows and land use; tools to facilitate policy changes to improve food security, while ensuring a more sustainable environment; increased cooperation among major research and stakeholder groups in major food production and consuming countries; and training a new generation alert to minimizing negative consequences from changes in land use worldwide. The project will provide a comprehensive framework, a complex systems modeling approach and a web-based decision support system to finding solutions that enhance food security for all, while ensuring a sustainable earth.

Call Objective

This call was designed to increase understanding of the dynamic spatial scale interactions between food security and land use. The focus was on the following topics: - Land use change impacts on food systems - Food systems dynamics as driver of land use changes - Feedback loop interactions between land use change and food security dynamics

Region

Country

Duration

Call Date

2013

Project Award Date

2013